I knew more about Texas than the Texans and when they told me I would find summer here I smiled knowingly.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

My people would love it if I smiled more, if I was more 'approachable.'

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans

You see, I'd not a very good place here; the fellows looked on me as a sort of special object of ridicule, on account of the hat and cane, walk, and so on, though I thought I'd got over that by this time.