It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.