There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. - Mark Twain

In the matter of diet I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

We lavish gifts upon them [children]; but the most precious gift—our personal association, which means so much to them—we give grudgingly.