He said that man’s heart was the only bad heart in the animal kingdom; that man was the only animal capable of feeling malice, envy, vindictiveness, revengefulness, hatred, selfishness, the only animal that loves drunkenness, almost the only animal that could endure personal uncleanliness and a filthy habitation, the sole animal in whom was fully developed the base instinct called patriotism, the sole animal that robs, persecutes, oppresses and kills members of his own tribe, the sole animal that steals and enslaves the members of any tribe.

You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

All men are ignorant, just on different subjects.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?