“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

“Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough.”

“The average man don't like trouble and danger.”

“A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.”

“Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?”

“It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. ”

“A solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.”