The last man that makes a joke owns it.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.

A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

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

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.