Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!