Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be…

I have seen Chinamen abused and maltreated in all the mean, cowardly ways possible to the invention of a degraded nature, but I never saw a policeman interfere in the matter and I never saw a Chinaman righted in a court of justice for …

I don't see no p'ints about that frog that's any better'n any other frog.

I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.

He was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.