We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn’t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn’t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it.

Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.