My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened.

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

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed – because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays.