Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperon.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

Set up as an ideal the facing of reality as honestly and as cheerfully as possible.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.