The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

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.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Once I talked to the inmates of an insane asylum in Hartford. I have talked to idiots a thousand times, but only once to the insane.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.