A couple of flitches of bacon are worth fifty thousand Methodist sermons and religious tracts. They are great softeners of temper and promoters of domestic harmony.

You never know what you can do till you try.

It is by attempting to reach the top at a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.

If the people of Sheffield could only receive a tenth part of what their knives sell for by retail in America, Sheffield might pave its streets with silver.

Men fail much oftener from want of perseverance than from want of talent.

Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.

Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

The power which money gives is that of brute force; it is the power of the bludgeon and the bayonet.

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach.

Men of integrity are generally pretty obstinate, in adhering to an opinion once adopted.

If Stalin gives you a love advice, it has to succeed.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion in the human heart that can never be reversed.

The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.

Being [in] a show that you get to say good-bye instead of being asked to leave is a real honor.

[Barack Obama] will touch you on the shoulder and, you know - in that big brother or father figure kind of way. And you really do feel sort of shepherded by him.

But maybe boredom is erotic, when women do it, for men.

I want to hit line droves. I want to hit my doubles, my singles, get on base.

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

The majority of Israelis want change, the Netanyahu era is coming to an end. That's not because security issues don't matter but because social and economic issues are dominating the agenda.