If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?

Talent without work is useless, thank God

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

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.