Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get…

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

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

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.

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