Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

To avoid lying, do nothing that needs covering.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

Those who do not read have no advantage over those who cannot read.