Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.