It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.