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

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster.