One holds a bottle of red wine by the neck, a woman by the waist, and a bottle of champagne by the derriere.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.