Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.

If the world were not so full of people, and most of them did not have to work so hard, there would be more time for them to get out and lie on the grass, and there would be more grass for them to lie on.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.