If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?
It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.
My father was a Saint Bernard, my mother was a Collie, but I am a Presbyterian.
There are no wild animals until man makes them so.
We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.
He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces.
Life is short. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly and love truly.
If I had more time, I would have written less.
I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn’t.
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.
Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
If you want to change the future, you must change what you’re doing in the present.
I was born with Halley’s Comet and I expect to die upon its return.
The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once.
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women.
In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.
There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.