One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.

You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.