Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does…

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

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

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

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