Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Temper is what gets most of us into trouble. Pride is what keeps us there.