To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.