Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.

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

A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.