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.'

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Patience is the gift of possibility. Time is merely an illusion. People lack patience, which is why time becomes their enemy.

It's not a luxury if you can't do without it!

The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

Life's tricky for women because they have to make more choices than men. And yes, choice is good, but boy, you better be an expert choice-maker.

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.

Blessings upon your mind and heart. Let openness, trust and love be your first response. This is the secret to everlasting joy, peace and contentment.

Yer the only friend I got, pigpiss... Ain't that the biggest tragedy you ever heard?

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.

It was between the ages of 14 and 20 and I started off not eating at all, maybe an apple a day.