The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer