July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so

To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is even nobler and much less trouble.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.