Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.