The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit.

I simply can´t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course.

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths

Never do wrong when people are looking.