Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that.

The secret to success: find out where people are going and get there first

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.