All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

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.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.