The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man

The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.

It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected.