Truth isn’t in accounts but in account-books.

Riches ... don't consist in having things, but in not having to do something you don't want to do. ... Riches is being able to thumb your nose.

Horse sense is the instinct that keeps horses from betting on men.

The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

The trouble with you, dear, is that you think an angel of the Lord as a creature with wings, whereas he is probably a scruffy little man with a bowler hat.

After three days without one, the desire to read a newspaper vanished. And really, one was happier without.

Nothing puts things in perspective as quickly as a mountain.