Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for certain that just ain't true." Thinking that you know the future.

The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

People who love sausage and respect the law should never watch either being made.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

The history of our race, and each individual’s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.