No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

I don't know of anything better than a woman if you want to spend money where it will show.

As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.

No matter how much strong black coffee we drink, almost any after- dinner speech will counteract it.

Gittin' talked about is one o' th' penalties for bein' purty, while bein' above suspicion is about th' only compensation fer bein' homely.

Nobody ever grew despondent looking for trouble.

Another bad thing about "prosperity" is that you can't jingle any money without being under suspicion