“The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so. ”

“What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.”

“I don't know anything that mars a good literature so completely as too much truth. Facts contain a great deal of poetry, but you can't use too many of them without damaging your literature.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”

“The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.”

“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.”

“You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.”