The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive. Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual-and yet each continues to be an individual....here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.