Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate.

Architects cannot teach nature anything.