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

Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't...The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.