The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.

...the person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. Chances are, he isn't likely to carry the cat that way again, either. But if he wants to, I say let him!

A newspaper is not just for reporting the news as it is, but to make people mad enough to do something about it.

Don't go to sleep, so many people die there.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.