If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

In literature imitations do not imitate.

I have been reading the morning paper. I do it every morning-knowing well that I shall find in it the usual depravities and basenesses and hypocrisies and cruelties that make up civilization, and cause me to put in the rest of the day pleading for the damnation of the human race. I cannot seem to get my prayers answered, yet I do not despair.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.