I do love compliments, yet I'm often embarrassed to say what I think to the person when I get a compliment. I so often feel that they have not gone far enough.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.