If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

The old Irish when immersing a babe at baptism left out the right arm so that it would remain pagan for good fighting

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.