Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.

Love your enemy, it will scare the hell out of them.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.