A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.