Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

But we are all insane, anyway ... The suicides seem to be the only sane people.

There's plenty of boys that will come hankering and gruvvelling around when you've got an apple, and beg the core off you; but when they're got one, and you beg for the core, and remind them how you give them a core one time, they take a mouth at you, and say thank you 'most to death, but there ain't a-going to be no core.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.