The most successful people are those who do all year long what they would otherwise do on their summer vacation.

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor.

The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print

I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.

How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out.