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.

Manifestly, dying is nothing to a really great and brave man.

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings.

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.