From The Pencil's Point: Wisdom and Quips

1916

Troubles, like babies, grow larger with nursing.

You can bank on finding a well-filled pocketbook interesting.

Men who don't enjoy good health ought to be physicians.

When you expect an opportunity it usually misses the train.

One word may make a new friendship or break an old one.

No man ever bought a horse that turned out to be just as represented.

Wise is he who selects an obedient daughter of a good mother for his wife.

Some people seem to think you should pay rent for the place you occupy in their thoughts.

Even if you have nothing to give the poor but a crust of bread, make it palatable by softening it with a little of the milk of human kindness.

It took Father Time thousands of years to make a man of a monkey, but a girl can make a monkey of a man in two minutes.

The modest friend who offers to lend you a couple of dollars when you are broke is far more worthy of your praise than the hero of a hundred battles.