Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.