Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.