Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

No temperance society which is well officered and which has the real good of our fellow-men in view, will ever get drunk save in the seclusion of its temperance hall.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.