To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.