"Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer - Mark Twain

Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it.

Where every man has a vote, brutal laws are impossible.

A critic never made or killed a book or a play. The people themselves are the final judges. It is their opinion that counts. After all, the final test is truth. But the trouble is that most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession and therefore are most economical in its use.