When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.