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

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.

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.

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all.

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

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