The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker.

The voyagers visited the Natchez Indians, near the site of the present city of that name, where they found a 'religious and political despotism, a privileged class descended from the sun, a temple and a sacred fire.' It must have been like getting home again; it was home with an advantage, in fact, for it lacked Louis XIV.

New Orleans food is as delicious as the less criminal forms of sin.

We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess. We never cared any thing about ice-cream at home, but we look upon it with a sort of idolatry now that it is so scarce in these red-hot climates of the East.

Jim he couldn't see no sense in the most of it, but he allowed we was white folks and knowed better than him.