Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes.

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

When in doubt tell the truth.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.