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

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Not all the Greek runners in the original Olympics were totally naked. Some wore shoes.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?