“It is easier to stay out than to get out.”

“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.”

“Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.”

“It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.”

“I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”

“There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.”

“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough forthem both to get drunk on. Then in another village they started adancing-school; but they didn't know no more how to dance than a kangaroodoes; so the first prance they made the general public jumped in andpranced them out of town. Another time they tried to go at yellocution;but they didn't yellocute long till the audience got up and give them asolid good cussing, and made them skip out.”