Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
I ain’t everybody, and I can’t stand it. It’s awful to be tied up so. And grub comes too easy – I don’t take no interest in vittles, that way. […] Looky-here, Tom, being rich ain’t what it’s cracked o...
But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.
A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.
The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
I have made it a rule never to smoke more that one cigar at a time.
Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.
I've never let my school interfere with my education.
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.
The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know...
It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows.
Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.