To enjoy a good reputation, give publicly, and steal privately.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up.

Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.