The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.

I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress.