Markus

“The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!"
Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer”
― Samuel Clemmons, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, "Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone," and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

“He was not the Model Boy of the village. He knew the model boy very well though—and loathed him.”
― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer