A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead.

The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.