Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.