...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Never do wrong when people are looking.