A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

There ain't nothing more to write about and I'm rotten glad of it, because if I'd know'd what trouble it was to make a book, I wouldn't a tackled it.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.