Following the Equator

"Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live."

"Often, the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."

"Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."

"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."

"Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."

"In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made School Boards."

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows anybody."

"I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent."