One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.

The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.