If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say.

When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!