Habits are like the wrinkles on a man's brow; if you will smooth out the one, I will smooth out the other.

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

Don't mistake pleasure for happiness. They are a different breed of dogs.

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.

Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.