Switzerland would me a mighty big place if it were ironed flat.

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer