There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

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.

We had an abundance of mangoes, papaias and bananas here, but the pride of the islands, the most delicious fruit known to men, cherimoya, was not in season. It has a soft pulp, like a pawpaw, and is eaten with a spoon.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.