Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

The solution to our water problems is more rain.