Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.