Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Mississippi begins in a lobby of a Memphis, Tennessee hotel and extends south to the Gulf of Mexico

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue.

Surely there is something in madness, even the demoniac, which Satan flees, aghast at his own handiwork, and which God looks on in pity.