Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time.

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.