The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".