A country without a patent office and good patent laws is just a crab, and can't travel any way but sideways and backways.

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

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

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.