Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.

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.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!

The difference between those that succeed and those that fail is, those that succeeded tried.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Education is what remains when what is learned has been taken away.