Let your joy be unconfined!

The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

My first American ancestor, gentlemen, was an Indian-an early Indian. Your ancestors skinned him alive, and I am an orphan. All those Salem witches were ancestors of mine. Your people made it tropical for them. . . . The first slave brought into New England out of Africa was an ancestor of mine-for I am a mixed breed, an infinitely shaded and exquisite Mongrel.