In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm.

The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.