I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

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

We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die.

It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.