I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I’m not feeling so well myself.

And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.