Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.