Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day.

Always do what's right. That will gratify some and surprise the rest.

First catch your Boer, then kick him.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate.