It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well.

For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty.

The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.