In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

America cannot have an empire abroad and a Republic at home.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

I told you this would happen. But, no, you had to go for the buffet, didn't you?