No scheme pays as well as legitimate business.

It is so easy for society to shock the people who are not in it.

Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

A conquered foe should be watched.

The longer a marriage is put off, the less probability that it will occur at all.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office.

When a man is fifty, the raffle is over, and he knows he hasn't drawn anything; but a young man of nineteen or twenty is just shaking the box for the first show.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

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

A girl who has been engaged a number of years always looks like a woman who has been married.

Compliments are often insincere, but fault-finding is always genuine.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, attributed, Killer Quotes: Knock 'Em Dead, Win Your Point

One of the surprising things of this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.

EDGAR WATSON HOWE, Country Town Sayings

Those who are actually in society, are not as ridiculous as those who are trying to get in.