There is no passion of the human heart that promises so much and pays so little as revenge.

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.

Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is