Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

I was born modest; not all over, but in spots.

We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages.