Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.

Definite speech means clarity of mind.

One of life's most over-valued pleasures is sexual intercourse; of one of life's least appreciated pleasures in defecation.

He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.