It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money.
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog thats lost - he smells everybody he meets and wags himself all over.
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.