The secret source of humour itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humour in heaven.

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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.

There is no easy or quick plan to happiness, there is no single spot where you can start. Where you are right now is the best place to begin.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.

Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free.

Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

There was a freshness and breeziness, too, and an exhilarating sense of emancipation from all sorts of cares and responsibilities, that almost made us feel that the years we had spent in the close, hot city, toiling and slaving, had been wasted and thrown away.

T[he rules of writing] require that the episodes in a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help to develop it.

There has never been an intelligent person of the age of sixty who would consent to live his life over again. His or anyone else.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

There was not a man in the party but believed that with a little practice he could stand in a row, especially if there were others along.

The nomadic instinct is a human instinct.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy, but sorrow. There is no humor in Heaven.

Why shouldn't we be honest and honorable, and lie every time we get a chance? That is to say, why shouldn't we be consistent, and either lie all the time or not at all?