It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

I am eighty years old. There seems to be nothing to add to this statement. I have reached the age of undecorated facts - facts that refuse to be softened by sentiment, or confused by nobility of phrase.

Every true American likes to think in terms of thousands and millions. The word 'million' is probably the most pleasure-giving vocable in the language.

It is difficult to admonish Frenchmen. Their habit of mind is unfavorable to preachment.

Miserliness is the one vice that grows stronger with increasing years. It yields its sordid pleasures to the end.

Humor brings insight and tolerance.