The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

The highest philosophers, in explaining the mystery of this world, are obliged to call in the aid of another.

The happiest time in any man's life is when he is in red-hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

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.

Pedigrees seldom improve by age; the grandson is too often a weak infringement on the grandsire's parent.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.