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

The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be

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

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

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.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.