They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.