Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.