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

The truth is a precious commodity. That's why I use it so sparingly.

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.