What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it.

I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved.

It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

Those who do not read the news are uninformed. Those who do are misinformed.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.