It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.

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.

Time spent with your children is time wisely spent.