To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life; - Mark Twain

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

[Citing a familiar "American joke":] In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?