...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".

Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.