He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

...fry me an optimist for breakfast.