It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does".

Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before.