If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men.

When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better.

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.

The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise.

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.