This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.