When in doubt, tell the truth.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
I don’t want no better book than what your face is.
An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.
He was sunshine most always – I mean he made it seem like good weather.
If you wish to inflict a heartless and malignant punishment upon a young person, pledge him to keep a journal a year.
The average man don’t like trouble and danger.
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.
Stand back – you will be wanting to go to war next. We will let you teach school as much as you want to, and we will pay you half wages for it, too, but beware! we don’t want you to crowd us too much.
Your country and mine is an interesting one, but there is nothing there that is half so interesting as the human mind.
An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.