“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.”

“But it seems to be a law of human constitution that those that deserve shall not have and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.”

“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”