If you have to swallow a frog, don't stare at it too long.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.