You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.