An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

Names are not always what they seem.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.