In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.