Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

We can achieve what we can conceive and believe.

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.