God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak.

God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

It has been reported that I was seriously ill--it was another man; dying--it was another man; dead--the other man again...As far as I can see, nothing remains to be reported, except that I have become a foreigner. When you hear it, don't you believe it. And don't take the trouble to deny it. Merely just raise the American flag on our house in Hartford and let it talk.