Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.

Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

There is no obligation on us to be richer, or busier, or more efficient, or more productive, or more progressive, or any way worldlier or wealthier, if it does not make us happier.

The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

Children feel the whiteness of the lily with a graphic and passionate clearness which we cannot give them at all. The only thing we can give them is information-the information that if you break the lily in two it won't grow again.

There nearly always is a method in madness.