Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

There it is: it doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on! somebody to hold in light esteem, somebody to be indifferent about.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.

Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.