The report of my death was an exaggeration.

I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism; that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations

When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.