Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer.

Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.