I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.