Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen.

Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

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

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.

Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him.