It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing.

...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'