But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.

Like all born politicians, their eye was for the main chance rather than for the argument, and they found it easier to forswear a conviction than to forego a comfort.

That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.

What a man marries for's hard to tell ... an' what a woman marries for's past findin' out.