If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.