I've lived through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year.

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.