Opinions should be formed with great caution, and changed with greater.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.

It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash.

Successful writers learn at last what they should learn at first,--to be intelligently simple.

Ignorance ain't not knowin' stuff; ignorance is knowin' stuff that AIN'T TRUE.

Fools carry their daggers in their open mouths.