You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Truth is such a precious article - let us all economize in its use.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk.