The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.