Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Why waste your money looking up your family tree? Just go into politics and your opponent will do it for you.

What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.