A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market.

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.