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

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons.

It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

I never could do anything with figures, never had any talent for mathematics, never accomplished anything in my efforts at that rugged study, and to-day the only mathematics I know is multiplication, and the minute I get away up in that, as soon as I reach nine times seven- [He lapsed into deep thought, trying to figure nine times seven. Mr. McKelway whispered the answer to him.] I've got it now. It's eighty-four. Well, I can get that far all right with a little hesitation. After that I am uncertain, and I can't manage a statistic.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.