Good friends good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

This poor little one-horse town.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

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

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.