The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die.