She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery.

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.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.