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'.

in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!