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. ”