I begin to think they'll eat each other up, and then there'll come an entirely new set of people of a different sort.

I always regarded the States as a Sodom and Gomorrah, prospering in wickedness, on which fire and brimstone were sure to fall sooner or later." "I think that's wicked." "I am wicked, as Topsy used to say.

Do you hunt ?" "No." "Do you shoot ?" "Shoot! What; with a gun ?" "Yes.

I was staying in a house last week with a lady who shot a good deal." "No; I don't shoot." "Do you ride ?" "No; I wish I did.

I have never ridden because I've no one to ride with me." "Do you drive ?" "No; I don't drive either." "Then what do you do ?" "I sit at home, and--" "Mend your stockings ?" "No; I don't do that, because it's disagreeable; but I do work a good deal.