You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Two days overdue, THE WORLD'S WORK has not reached me. Pray make a note of this. I would rather not have to resort to violence.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica.