A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

“Classic.” A book which people praise and don’t read.

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Ill risk forty dollars that he can out jump any frog in Calaveras county.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

All you need is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience — 4000 critics.

In order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.