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.

There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest.

April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.