It is not enough to be happy, it is also necessary that others not be.

The less I understand life, the more I live it!

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead

Life is what our character makes it. We fashion it, as a snail does its shell. A man can say: I never made a fortune because it is not in my character to be rich.

You can recover from the writing malady only by falling mortally ill and dying.

An egotist always resents meeting another egotist as if he alone had the right to be one.

It doesn't pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, Let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he'll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn't say.