A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.