None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

The only people that a bank will loan money to is the very people who don't need it.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime.