Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

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

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

A man's idee in a card game is war