We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

Death seems to provide the minds of the Anglo-Saxon race with a greater fund of amusement than any other single subject.

you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's so rare for a man to have it that if he does you write a book about him and call him Sherlock Holmes.