Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast.

Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

When you catch an adjective, kill it - perhaps the best possible advice for budding writers.

In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it.

When angry, count to a hundred.