My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

The physician who knows only medicine, knows not even medicine.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.