To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

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

Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat.

God created war so that Americans would learn geography.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.