They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it.

If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea.

Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Some people bring joy wherever they go, and some people bring joy whenever they go.

Better a broken promise than none at all.