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.

I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything.

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.