It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

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