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

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

When someone dies, it is like when your house burns down; it isn't for years that you realize the full extent of your loss.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.