I simply can't resist a cat, particularly a purring one.

It is my heart-warmed and world-embracing Christmas hope and aspiration that all of us, the high, the low, the rich, the poor, the admired, the despised, the loved, the hated, the civilized, the savage (every man and brother of us all throughout the whole earth), may eventually be gathered together in a heaven of everlasting rest and peace and bliss, except the inventor of the telephone.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists

In all my travels the thing that has impressed me the most is the universal brotherhood of man-what there is of it.

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.