The secret of getting ahead is getting started

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer