People From Massachusetts

"When a man gits tew talking about himself, he seldum fails tew be eloquent, and often reaches the sublime."

"Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust"

"Poverty is the stepmother of genius."

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."

"I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words."

"Nature never makes blunders; when she makes a fool she means it."

"Better make a weak man your enemy than your friend."

"Put an Englishman into the garden of Eden, and he would find fault with the whole blasted concern; put a Yankee in, and he would see where he could alter it to advantage; put an Irishman in, and he would want to boss the thing; put a Dutchman in, and he would proceed to plant it."

"Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself he does not put there is his private property, as much as if he had never written a word."

"Every person is responsible for only the good within his abilities, and for no more, and no one can tell whose sphere is the largest."

"The total depravity of inanimate things."