"The world and the books are so accustomed to use, and over-use, the word 'new' in connection with our country, that w…"

"When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean …"

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly and I did. I said I didn't know."

"Your true pilot cares nothing about anything on earth but the river, and his pride in his occupation surpasses the pr…"

"By the Shadow of Death, but he's a lightning pilot!"

"Here is a proud devil, thought I; here is a limb of Satan that would rather send us all to destruction than put himse…"

"I felt like a skinful of dry bones and all of them trying to ache at once."

"You can depend on it, I'll learn him or kill him."

"The Mississippi is well worth reading about. It is not a commonplace river, but on the contrary is in all ways remark…"