A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it

Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.