I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.

I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.