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

We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it.

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death.