I have too much respect for the truth to drag it out on every trifling occasion.

I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion.

I try never to let my schooling get in the way of my education.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.

We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability to bore, their luxuriant fertility of imagination, their startling, brilliant, overwhelming mendacity.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand.