A secret ceases to be a secret if it is once confided - it is like a dollar bill, once broken, it is never a dollar again.

It is a statistical fact that the wicked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven

It ain't what a man don't know that makes him a fool, but what he does know that ain't so.

As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for.

My advice to those who are about to begin, in earnest, the journey of life, is to take their heart in one hand and a club in the other.

When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime.

Economy is a savings-bank, into which men drop pennies, and get dollars in return.