I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

Never run after you own hat - others will be delighted to do it; why spoil their fun?

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.