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.

I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.