Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.