Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.