Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.