MARK TWAIN

was for this that Mr. Gull was granted Knighthood, that
doormat at the threshold of nobility. When the Prince
seemed dead Mr. Gull dealt blow after blow between the
shoulders, breathed into his nostrils, and literally cheated
Death.

Monarchy? Why is it out of date? It belongs to the
state of culture that admires a ring in your nose, a head
full of feathers and your belly painted blue.

That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have
six Bibles and no corkscrew.

That government is not best which best secures mere
life and property—there is a more valuable thing—man-
hood.

I always come to introduce Stanley every time he goes
off to hunt up some mislaid person in Africa and gets
forgotten.

William Penn achieved the deathless gratitude of the
savages by merely dealing in a square way with them—
well—kind of a square way, anyhow—more rectangular
than the savage was used to at any rate. He bought the
whole state of Pennsylvania from them and paid for it
like a man—paid $40 worth of glass beads and a couple
of second-hand blankets. Bought the whole state for that.
Why you can't buy its legislature for twice the money
now.

Memoranda concerning the machine and its
trouble—its shortcomings—become monotonous,
but just one more, to show the torture of mind
he must have endured.

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