There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal.

Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.

The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

To bring up a child in the way he should go -- travel that way yourself.

Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.