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

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Faith is believing things you know aint true

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.

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