Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

Humor is tragedy plus time.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth.

Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole.

It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.