It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are impossible

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children.

More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat.

A few fly bites cannot stop a spirited horse.