“What people say behind your back is your standing in the community in which you live.”

“When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.”

“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”

“About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.”

“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.”

“A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him.”

“Worry is like a rocking-chair. It gives you something to do buy gets you nowhere.”

“But if that was going to happen, it was going to happen whether or not he worried about it.”

“Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”