Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.