There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.