But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.

Do not complain about growing old. It is a privilege denied to many.

We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.

I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.