"I speak from the grave for a good reason:
I can thence speak freely."

"Talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment.
Drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale,
and turn your talk upon the new and more interesting thing
that has intruded itself into your mind meantime."

"... a tall, lean, skinny, yellow, toothless,
bald-headed, rat-eyed, professional liar and scoundrel."

"The mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country.
The people had desired money before his day,
but he taught them to fall down and worship it."

"The enemy numbered six hundred, including women and children -
and we abolished them utterly,
leaving not even a baby alive to cry
for its dead mother."

"I can call back the prairie. its loneliness and peace,
and a vast hawk hanging motionless in the sky,
with his wings spread wide
and the blue of the vault showing through the fringe of their end feathers..."

"It is one of the mysteries of our nature
that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like that and live."

"What is it all for?"