Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

I wrote 'Tom Sawyer' and 'Huck Finn' for adults exclusively, and it always distressed me when I find that boys and girls have been allowed access to them. The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.