"I'm a controversial figure: my friends either dislike me or hate me."

"Every one wishes to have truth on his side, but it is not everyone sincerely wishes to be on the side of truth."

"I really can't come to your party Mrs. Parker, I can't bear fools.' That's strange; your mother could."

"Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."

"I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible."

"NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life."

"I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed."

"Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance."

"The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves."