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

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

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

Every man paddles his own canoe.

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.

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