At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned

There is no greater monster than reason.

You always pay too much. Particularly for promises. There aint no such thing as a bargain promise.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

For even if you should have stood your ground, he said, yet what ground was it?

He believed in God even if he was doubtful of men's claims to know God's mind. But that a God unable to forgive was no God at all.

I guess you ought to be careful about cussin the dead. I would say at the least there probably ain't no luck in it.