In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?

When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Honesty: The best of all the lost arts.

I will now claim - until dispossesed - that I was the first person in the world to apply the typewriter to literature. ... The early machine was full of caprices, full of defects- devilish ones. It had as many immoralities as the machine of today has virtues. After a year or two I found that it was degrading my character, so I thought I would give it to Howells. ... He took it home to Boston, and my morals began to improve, but his have never recovered.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.