Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.