To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

It is a good idea to obey all the rules when you're young just so you'll have the strength to break them when you're old.

I am dead to adverbs; they cannot excite me. To misplace an adverb is a thing which I am able to do with frozen indifference; it can never give me a pang. There are subtleties which I cannot master at all - they confuse me, they mean absolutely nothing to me - and this adverb plague is one of them.