He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

Canadian girls are so pretty it's a relief now and then to see a plain one.

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