There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
He has the deed half done who has made a beginning.
In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.
Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book; a personality which, by birth and quality, is pledged to the doctrines there set forth, and which exists to see and state things so, and not otherwise.
The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.
Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world – and never will.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
I’m out there to clean the plate. Once they’ve read what I’ve written on a subject, I want them to think, ‘That’s it!’ I think the highest aspiration people in our trade can have is that once they’ve written a story, nobody will ever try it again.
If a man’s wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
If people misunderstand you, do not worry…it is your voice that they hear, but what goes through their mind is…their own thoughts.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
I pay the schoolmaster, but it is the school boys who educate my son.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
I’m only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Cultivate kindness today and always.
You are now fixed at the mercy of no governor that comes to make his fortune great; you shall be governed by laws of your own making and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industrious life. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution and has given me his grace to keep it.
