It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.

I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.