While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.