Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

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.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

great people are those who make others feel that they, too, can become great.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

A good lawyer knows the law; a clever one takes the judge to lunch.

The report of my death was an exaggeration.