When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Doing your best means never stop trying.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how -- the very best I can. And I mean to keep on doing it to the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me will not amount to anything. If the end brings me out all wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

I must run the machine as I find it.

When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees.

How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg? Four. Saying that a tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg.