You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

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

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.