Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy.