Two-thirds of all preachers, doctors and lawyers are hanging on to the coat tails of progress, shouting, whoa! while a good many of the rest are busy strewing banana peels along the line of march.

The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

We work to become, not to acquire.