The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.