you can't fit the same religion to every man any mo' than you can the same pair of breeches. The big man takes the big breeches an' the little man takes the small ones, an' it's jest the same with religion. It may be cut after one pattern, but it's might apt to get its shape from the wearer inside. Why, thar ain't any text so peaceable that it ain't drawn blood from somebody.

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Yes, I learned long ago that the only satisfaction of authorship lies in finding the very few who understand what we mean. As for outside rewards, there is not one that I have ever discovered.

Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.

The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.