Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.