Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.

We know when we have had enough of a friend, and we know when a friend has had enough of us. The first truth is no more palatable than the second.

Humor hardens the heart, at least to the point of sanity.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

There is nothing in the world so incomprehensible as the joke we do not see.