The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

Truth is neither alive nor dead; it just aggravates itself all the time.

Life is short, break the rules.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.