“Oh!' cried Neb, 'suppose it's jam!''I hope not,' replied the reporter.”

“I say, you do have a heart!""Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.”

“As for difficulties," replied Ferguson, in a serious tone, "they were made to be overcome.”

“While there is life there is hope. I beg to assert...that as long as a man's heart beats, as long as a man's flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.”

“Oh, figures!' answered Ned. 'You can make figures do whatever you want.”

“Alluding to the extent of Florida, a mere peninsula confined between two seas, they pretended that it could never sustain the shock of the discharge, and that it would "bust up" at the very first shot."Very well, let it bust up!" replied the Floridans, with a brevity of the days of ancient Sparta.”

“Well, I feel that we should always put a little art into what we do. It's better that way.”