Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took: we know it because she repented.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.