An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

I'm all for prosperity. It's change I object to.

There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

The average American may not know who his grandfather was. But the American was, however, one degree better off than the average Frenchman who, as a rule, was in considerable doubt as to who his father was.