Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

The water is clearer than the air, and the air is the air that angels breathe.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.