If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

If you're looking for friends when you need them...it's too late.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

Italy is the home of art and swindling; home of religion and moral rottenness