There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it.