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

Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.