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

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

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 secret of getting ahead is getting started