I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Old habits cannot be thrown out the upstairs window. They have to be coaxed downstairs one step at a time.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

There is nothing to be learned from the second kick of a mule.