Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

What's your name?" "Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer." "That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?" "Yes

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

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass