The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

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.

Which is him?" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.