There are ten or twenty basic truths, and life is the process of discovering them over and over and over.

Well begun is half done.

An idea is an eye given by God for the seeing of God. Some of these eyes we cannot bear to look out of, we blind them as quickly as possible.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours.

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.

A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.

I remember when legal used to mean lawful, now it means some kind of loophole.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

There's no such thing as a free lunch.

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.

If a man stay away from his wife for seven years, the law presumes the separation to have killed him; yet according to our daily experience, it might well prolong his life.

Knowledge is power.

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.