Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

If smoking cigars is not permitted in heaven, I won''t go.

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.