It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.