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.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories— and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures.

Switzerland is simply a large, lumpy, solid rock with a thin skin of grass stretched over it.

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way.

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.