...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.

A little lie can travel half way 'round the world while Truth is still lacing up her boots.

No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.