The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property.

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.