Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.