Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.