There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

When you feel like tellin a feller to go to the devil - tell him to go to Chicago - it'll anser every purpose, and is perhaps, a leetle more expensive.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

Additional problems are the offspring of poor solutions.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.