Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful.

Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

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.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.