If ignorance is bliss, why isn't the world happier?

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave.

If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty