Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Yes, he's got all them different kinds of thoroughbred blood in him, and he's got other kinds you ain't mentioned and that you ain't slick enough to see.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.