When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

Man is the only animal that is cruel. It kills just for the sake of it.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

To me [Edgar Allen Poe's] prose is unreadable—like Jane Austin's [sic]. No there is a difference. I could read his prose on salary, but not Jane's. Jane is entirely impossible. It seems a great pity that they allowed her to die a natural death.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.