Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

To stand still is to fall behind.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.