The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one.