Every man has a secret ambition: To outsmart horses, fish and women.
....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.
And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.
Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.
The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.
An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.