There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'.

A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so.

The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!