What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.