White lies are ushers to black ones..

All lies, white or black, disgrace a gentleman, although I grant there is a difference: to say the least of it, it is a dangerous habit, for white li….

The English will agree with me that there are plenty of good things for the table in America; but the old proverb says: 'God sends meat and the devil….

There is no composing draught like the draught through the tube of a pipe..

In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned onl….

If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess: and, if I do not rise in the estimation….

But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast pig, large or ….

Gentle reader, I was born upon the water - not upon the salt and angry ocean, but upon the fresh and rapid-flowing river..

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the g….

There's no getting blood out of a turnip..

I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich..

Every man paddles his own canoe..