sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

one trouble with all the churches is that they have too many incurable saints in them, men and women who pray too much and do too little, who cannot forget their own selfish salvation enough to look after other people's without feeling their own spiritual pulse all the time they are doing it. Of late I've sometimes suspected that it is nearly as debilitating to stay in the church all the time as it would be to stay in a hospital all the time.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

I believe if we can wait long enough that every honorable sorrow will become a kind of joy.

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.