Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.

Learn from the mistakes of others - you won't live long enough to make them all yourself. He's opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer him the position.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.