Men mourn for what they have lost; women for what they ain't got.

The truly innocent are those who not only are guiltless themselves but who think others are.

A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

It AIN'T so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we know that just ain't so.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

Nature makes all the noblemen; wealth, education, or pedigree never made one yet.