Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.