Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.'].

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.