"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

"Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable."

"He pointed to the money, and said:"The love of it is the root of all evil. There it lies, the ancient tempter, newly red with the shame of its latest victory--the dishonor of a priest of God and his two poor juvenile helpers in crime. If it could but speak, let us hope that it would be constrained to confess that of all its conquests this was the basest and the most pathetic."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."

"For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him."

"Nature has no originality--I mean, no large ability in the matter of inventing new things, new ideas, new stage effects. She has a superb and amazing and infinitely varied equipment of old ones, but she never adds to them. She repeats--repeats--repeats--repeats. Examine your memory and your experience; you will find it is true."

"October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February."

"Life itself is only a vision, a dream.""Nothing exists; all is a dream. God--man--the world--the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars--a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space--and you!"

"Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them."

"But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

"Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick."

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

"Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

"A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."

"Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."

"Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."

"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

"I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately."

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."

"It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it and remove all doubt."

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."

"We Americans... bear the ark of liberties of the world."

"Nothing exists; all is a dream. God-man-the world-the sun, the moon, the wilderness of stars-a dream, all a dream; they have no existence. Nothing exists save empty space-and you!"

"He done his level best.Was he a mining on the flat..He done it with a zest..Was he a leading of the choir..He done his level best.If he'd a reg'lar task to do,He never took no rest..Or if 'twas off and on the same..He done his level best.If he was preachin' on his beat,He'd tramp from east to west,And north to south ..in cold and heat..He done his level best.He'd Yank a sinner outen (Hades),And land him with the blest;Then snatch a prayer'n waltz in again,And do his level best.He'd cuss and sing and howl and pray,And dance and drink and jest,He done his level best.Whate'er this man was sot to doHe done it with a zest;No matter what his contract was,He'd do his level best..."

"When I was a boy of fourteen my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."

"Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying."

"Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."

"Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."

"It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened."

"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death."

"Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!"

"I was born modest not all over but in spots."

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

"How empty is theory in the presence of fact!"

"Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."

"There's one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he's crooked."

"Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and today -- all without seeing him. It is a long time to be alone; still, it is better to be alone that unwelcome. I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals."

"I persuaded him to throw the dirk away and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself."

"The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all."