When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them―then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get rid of as any other vice.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

Hunger is the handmaid of genius