Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.

When everyone is looking for gold, it's a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.

It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

There is nothing training can't cannot do. Nothing is above its reach.

I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch.