He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

Consider the average intelligence of the common man, then realize 50% are even stupider.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army.

It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.