E. W. Howe

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

The way out of trouble is never as simple as the way in.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next year for better.

For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.

The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.