There isn't any way to libel the human race.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable.

If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash.