I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.

Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?