Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

Most people can't bear to sit in church for an hour on Sundays. How are they supposed to live somewhere very similar to it for eternity?

Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.