Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Kentucky, because everything there happens 20 years after it happens anywhere else.

English humor is hard to appreciate, though, unless you are trained to it. The English papers, in reporting my speeches, always put 'laughter' in the wrong place.

To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.

Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record.

It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?.

Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business.