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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
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Yes, one uses what one knows, but autobiography means something else. I should never be able to write a real autobiography; I always end by falsifying and fictionalizing—I’m a liar, in fact. That means I’m a novelist, after all. I write about what I know.
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The truthful man is usually a liar.
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.
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It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.
