But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

Next to possessing genius one's self is the power of appreciating it in others.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

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

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.