France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

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. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-filled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

History may not repeat, but it often rhymes.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.