A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die.

If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.