There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.