I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.