Some people have a perfect genius for doing nothing, and doing it assiduously.

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.

And I bet it's harder than people think, isn't it? Everything looks so simple from a distance. Then, the more you look, the more you see. And that's when you have to rise to the challenge.

You have to grow. You have to be. You have to love yourself unconditionally.

If you want to have a big and strong church, then you need to build a prayer wall of defense in the spiritual realm...

All right then, I’ll be mad at you on this score, which incidentally is no great misfortune, as things balance out quite well if there’s a little anger for you lurking in one corner of my heart.

What is it: is man only a blunder of God or God only a blunder of man?

I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.

You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you keep moving toward the light.

All the Democrats do is bicker. They're not concerned about the war or the fate of the United States of America. They're desperate characters.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

And than suddenly he was there, charging down the hallway like death in a cowboy duster.