It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.