There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze.

Don't wake up a woman in love. Let her dream, so that she does not weep when she returns to her bitter reality

She is not refined. She is not unrefined. She keeps a parrot

I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.