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

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

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

...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".

Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene