Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

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.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word.