A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial.

Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it.

I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up.

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.