It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

It is a shameful thing to insult a child.