A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.