Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

I wonder if God created man because He was disappointed with the monkey.

Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick.

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.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.