When a man's dog turns against hime, it is time for his wife to pack her trunk and go home to mamma.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.