He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.