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

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

You can't break a bad habit by throwing it out the window. You've got to walk it slowly down the stairs.