There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency; and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Satire that is seasonable and just is often more effectual than law or gospel.
Knowledge is like money, the more a man gits the more he hankers for.
If a man is right, he can’t be too radical; if he is wrong, he can’t be too conservative.
I never knew a man troubled with melancholy, who had plenty to do, and did it.
A man running for office puts me in mind of a dog that’s lost-he smells everybody he meets, and wags himself all over.
Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.
It AIN’T so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.
What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.
I never question a success, any more than I do the right of a bulldog to lie in his own gateway.
Poverty is one of them kind of misfortunes that we all of us dread but none of us pity.
Pity costs nothing, and it ain’t worth nothing.
The devil is the father of lies, but he neglected to patent the idea, and the business now suffers from competition.
Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.
Early genius, like early cabbage, does not head well.
Our continual desire for praise ought to convince us of our mortality, if nothing else will.
Pedantry is paraded knowledge.
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.
As a general thing, an individual who is neat in his person is neat in his morals.
Method is the arithmetic of success.