He liked to like people, therefore people liked him.

Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

The most difficult We do not deal in facts when we are contemplating ourselves.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.