A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse .

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething.

A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation .

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.