When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.