New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.