When it's steamboat time, you steam

You should never do anything wicked and lay it on your brother, when it is just as convenient to lay it on some other boy

Human beings feel dishonor the most, sometimes, when they most deserve it

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it.

When in doubt tell the truth.