We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege.

It's so damned humiliating.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Your actions speak so much louder than words.

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.