A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever.

Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out.

We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way.