If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.

I was warned to stop smoking, which I did, for two or three days, but it was too lonesome, and I have resumed - in a modified way - 4 smokes a day instead of 40. This will have a good effect. On the bank balance.

Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

It is better to support schools than jails.