The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular.

Don't wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the #‎ telephone .

Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly.

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness.