"It takes 15,000 nuts to hold a car together, but only one to spread it all over the highway."

"Violence is a tool of the ignorant."

"Funny is an attitude."

"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."

"You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine."

"The devil made me do it."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth."

"Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire."

"To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it - this is a hard lesson."

"If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land."

"No one is safe from slander. The best way is to pay no attention to it, but live in innocence and let the world talk."

"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."