It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

Conscience, man's moral medicine chest.

There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind.

It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.