When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people.

Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.