If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country.

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.