A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway. If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him. It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow.

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

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.

When your opinions start to coincide with those of the majority, it is time to reconsider your opinions.

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.