Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.

Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.

Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.