The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.