Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

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

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the "asylum".