In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to you than the ninety-and -nine which you had to work for, and money won at faro or in stock snuggles into your heart in the same way.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

It were not best that we should all think alike.

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.