You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Behold, the fool saith, "Put not all thine eggs in the one basket" - which is but a matter of saying, "Scatter your money and your attention"; but the wise man saith, "Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET." - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.