The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation.

To do right is wonderful. To teach others to do right is even more wonderful--and much easier.

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.

So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment.

She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.