The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.