With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

Some day I shall be President.

My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.

Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.