Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness.

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.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.