Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings.

Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale.

When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it.