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'.

Better a broken promise than none at all.

Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first.