They say that you can't live by bread alone, but I can live on compliments.
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography.
The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.
The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful as a dreamland, nothing worldly about it . . . nothing to hang a fret or a worry upon.