The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in memory of injuries is engraved on the heart, and remains forever.

Favoritism manifests itself in all departments of government, public and private. It is the harder to avoid, because it is so natural.

Life ain't all beer and skittles.

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Mules and human jackasses are proverbially stubborn.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.

Wise men, like wine, are best when old; pretty women, like bread, are best when young.

The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?

A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance of the other in not knowing what he does.

The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Look at it like this, it's not that we're making life, we're simply giving life a place to live.

A man like Verdi must write like Verdi.

When the mischief is done the door is shut.

Your gift to God is honesty. God's gift to you is truth.

I spent so many years with people saying, 'Hey, you're like America's boyfriend!

To get nominated by the Republican Party you've got to be pretty reactionary, really.

The periods of unemployment accompanying depression in the business cycle . . . present a challenge to all our claims to progress, humanity, and civilization.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

I hate anything that occupies more space than it is worth... I hate to see a parcel of big words without anything in them.