I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white lies are but the gentleman ushers to black ones.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

White lies are ushers to black ones.

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

Come, my men! never say die while there's a shot in the locker.

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid.

... secrecy adds a charm to an amour ...

Prayer is the key that unlocks all doors.

When I get depressed, I try to get something for the terrible sadness that comes over me and create something in terms of poetry.

On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

I'll give you the same advice I give my children: Never take advice from anybody.

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

In a utopia you want to win matches by several goals and by playing a wonderful brand of football. But that's utopia.

The woman that comes in, takes the wastebasket away, she's paying 15.3 or whatever it is on payroll tax alone. I mean it is - I never had it so good.