I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

A better idea than my own is to listen.