There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

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.

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.

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 ...

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.

Nothing is stronger than gentleness.

I don't know a lot about New Zealand except that it is beautiful! All of my friends in bands who have toured there have said great things about it so I hope I can go perform there soon!

Nobody in the Senate on a bipartisan fashion trusts the Iranians. They lie. They cheat. They're a murderous regime. They've been trying to develop a nuclear weapon.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!

Cultivators of the earth are the most virtuous and independent citizens.

The critical investment factor is determining the intrinsic value of a business and paying a fair or bargain price.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.