Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him.

There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to angelship.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.