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.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.