I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying "You have written stories yourself." Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped.