The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it.

What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far.