Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently