I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

When I was 17, my father was so stupid, I didn't want to be seen with him in public. When I was 24, I was amazed at how much the old man had learned in just 7 years.

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.