As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.