Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.