Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. You cannot eliminate habits that no longer serve you. You can only replace them with new habits that support your goals. Moment by moment, you need to live with awareness and structure the habits that you include or exclude in your days.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

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

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

When congress is in session no American is safe.