How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.