It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.