The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

We have the best government that money can buy.

Never tell a lie-except for practice.

The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is being attacked, and every man will be glad of these conscience-soothing falsities

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.