"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long."

"CandyIs dandyBut liquorIs quicker."

"The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!"

"The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig."

"He without benefit of scruples His fun and money soon quadruples."

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it."

"The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

"There is nothing capricious in nature and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feel it."

"I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them."

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."