Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.