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

"Money will buy a pretty good dog, but it won't buy the wag of his tail."

"There is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing."

"I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, and that's the next thing to money."

"Diligence is the mother of good fortune."

"I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

"But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"

"The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."