There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes.

That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.