“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”

“There are two kinds of fools: those who can't change their opinions and those who won't.”

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”

“The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.”

“Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.”

“Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.”

“Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail.”

“Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”

“Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.”

“There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”