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.

Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

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

If the world despises a hypocrite, what must they think of him in heaven?

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.

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.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.