My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to-both have their advantages, heaven for the climate, hell for the company!

If you have nothing to say, say nothing.

You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

There are three kinds of liars: liars, damned liars, and statisticians

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.