A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.

There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.