Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.