I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else.

He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see.

You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.

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.

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise, and the confusion are gone, and in fancy we revisit alone, the solemn monuments of the past, and summon the phantom pageants of an age that has passed away.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up. But

We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.