Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.