Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.
Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead Spenser is dead so is Milton so is Shakespeare and I'm not feeling so...
In certain trying circumstances urgent circumstances desperate circumstances profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer.
Name the greatest of all inventors: Accident.
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
There are two kinds of patriotism -- monarchical patriotism and republican patriotism. In the one case the government and the king may rightfully furnish you their notions of patriotism; in the other,...
Humor is tragedy plus time.
Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.
Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.
The difference between nonfiction and fiction is that fiction must be absolutely believable.