Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

A lawyer's dream of heaven: every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.