Most men would rather be charged with malice than with making a blunder.

A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that's lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.

I hold that a man has as much right to spell a word as it is pronounced as he has to pronounce it the way it ain't spelled.

I have never known a person to live to be one hundred and be remarkable for anything else.

One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.