When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.

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.

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!