Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.