When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Recipe for a long life: Only smoke while awake. Only run when being chased.

You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use.

A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.