The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

All say, ‘how hard it is that we have to die’ -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.