I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Don't wait the time is never just right.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.