Be good and you will be lonesome.
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it doesn’t make it right.
A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.
It is by the goodness of god that in our country we have those 3 unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
Don’t wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality.
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe.
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.
Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can’t find anybody who can tell me what they want.
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.