A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else.

[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.

The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

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

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.