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

Don't have any more secrets than you can keep yourself.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

If you believe you can do something, then you can acquire the ability to do it even if you didn't have it in the beginning.

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.

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