Looking’ his last’ upon the scene of his former joys and his later sufferings, and wishing ‘she’ could see him now, abroad on the wild sea, facing peril and death with a dauntless heart, going...

That which I have seen, in that one little moment will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the...

The preacher who casts a vote for conscience’ sake, runs the risk of starving.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much...

In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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.

One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll and a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size.

Cuando recordamos que todos somos locos, la vida queda explicada

Loose and forbear!

Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.

Of all God’s creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but...

He had had much experience of physicians, and said ‘the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not’.

Just the omission of Jane Austen’s books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn’t a book in it.

I deserve it all. Let the cold world do its worst; one thing I know–there’s a grave somewhere for me. The world may go on just as its always done, and take everything from me–loved...

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he...

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

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare.

Children and fools always speak the truth.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

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

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Names are not always what they seem.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don’t let fluff and...

The Bible has noble poetry in it… and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

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 holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before...

O homem que não lê não tem nenhuma vantagem sobre o homem que não sabe ler.

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...

I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

Use what you stand for and what you oppose as a foundation to write great content that resonates with readers and creates a ripple effect.

I’ve lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

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

Behold, the fool saith, “Put not all thine eggs in the one basket” – which is but a matter of saying, “Scatter your money and your attention”; but the wise man saith, “Pull all your...

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank...

Thanksgiving Day, a function which originated in New England two or three centuries ago when those people recognized that they really had something to be thankful for — annually, not oftener — if they had...