“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”

“Everything in moderation except whiskey, and sometimes too much whiskey is just enough.”

“Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.”

“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.”

“You can't throw too much style into a miracle.”

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

“When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both.”