If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest of royal families," Satan said, "sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race."

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 Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly—Tom's Aunt Polly, she is—and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before.

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

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.