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….

White lies are ushers to black ones..

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

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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 ….

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..