There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe.

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich.

There's no getting blood out of a turnip.

Every man paddles his own canoe.

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil sends cooks.'

But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or small, as the centre attraction. Six miles of roast pig! And that in New York City alone; and roast pig in every other city, town, hamlet, and village in the Union. What association can there be between roast pig and independence?

White lies are ushers to black ones.