I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

When one has tasted watermelons, one knows what angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.