Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The Bible is full of interest. It has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and some good morals; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies. This Bible is built mainly out of fragments of older Bibles that had their day and crumbled to ruin. So it noticeably lacks in originality, necessarily. Its three or four most imposing and impressive events all happened in earlier Bibles; there are only two new things in it: hell, for one, and that singular heaven I have told you about.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter.