There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way.