Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more.

I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.