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

By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man.

Does the human being reason? No; he thinks, muses, reflects, but does not reason...that is, in the two things which are the peculiar domain of the heart, not the mind, politics and religion. He doesn't want to know the other side. He wants arguments and statistics for his own side, and nothing more.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.

It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.