The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

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

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.