Everybody in this world wants watching, but nobody more than ourselves.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

I don't never have any trouble in regulating my own conduct, but to keep other folks' straight is what bothers me.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.

It ain't no disgrace for a man to fall, but to lie there and grunt is.