It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose .

It is your human environment that makes climate

It isn’t what a man has that constitutes wealth. No—it is to be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog .

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

It was a close place. I took it up, and held itin my hand. I was trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”—and tore it up.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.