The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Every man should know something of law; if he knows enough to keep out of it, he is a pretty good lawyer.

I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

It is easy to assume a habit; but when you try to cast it off, it will take skin and all.

Liberty, like chastity, once lost, can never be regained in its original purity.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.