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

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you.

Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.