There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Learning to play two pairs is worth about as much as a college education, and about as costly.

The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

Never let formal education get in the way of your learning.