I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow. I cannot conscientiously recommend it for any useful purposes whatever. All I can suggest is that when you get tired of reading "the best hundred books," you may take this for half an hour. It will be a change.

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.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.