I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

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'.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.