The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart.

Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.

One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.