There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: "Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.