If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

The difference between fiction and nonfiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.

To stand still is to fall behind.

... No photograph ever was good, yet, of anybody - hunger and thirst and utter wretchedness overtake the outlaw who invented it! It transforms into desperadoes the weakest of men; depicts sinless innocence upon the pictured faces of ruffians; gives the wise man the stupid leer of a fool, and the fool an expression of more than earthly wisdom.