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.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.

My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.

Never do wrong when people are looking.