There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank.

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

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.

Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday.