The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word

Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way