What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.