The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

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