For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness

The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.

I am a border ruffian from the State of Missouri,I am a Connecticut Yankee by adoption.In me you have Missouri morals,Connecticut culture;this gentlemaen,is the combination which makes the perfect man

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority

I shall not often meddle with politics, because we have a political Editor who is already excellent and only needs to serve a term or two in the penitentiary to be perfect