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

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.