Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right.

Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind.

It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

Many of the cemeteries are beautiful, and are kept in perfect order. When one goes from the levee or the business streets [of New Orleans] to it, to a cemetery, he observes to himself that if those people down there would live as neatly while they are alive as they do after they are dead, they would find many advantages in it; and besides, their quarter would be the wonder and admiration of the business world.