“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward”

“There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.”

“What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps a-field.”

“The horror with which blind and unjust law regards an action never attaches to the doer in the eyes of those who love him.”

“We got together in a few days a company of the toughest old salts imaginable--not pretty to look at, but fellows, by their faces, of the most indomitable spirit.”

“And he took another swallow of the brandy, shaking his great fair head like a man who looks forward to the worst.”

“A hanging in a good quarrel is an easy death they say, though I could never hear of any that came back to say so.”