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

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

We are all beggars, each in his own way.

I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people.