Thiar ain't no sense In gittin' riled!

- Bret Harte

The dominant expression of a child is gravity.

- Bret Harte

There is peace in the swamp, though the quiet is Death

- Bret Harte

If, of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been,' More sad are these we daily see: 'It is, but hadn't ought to be!'

- Bret Harte

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

- Bret Harte

For the glory born of Goodness Never dies, And its flag is not half-masted In the skies.

- Bret Harte

Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry.

- Bret Harte

Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again.

- Bret Harte

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

- Bret Harte