Dance like nobody's looking.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Never be haughty to the humble, never be humble to the haughty.