It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel.

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.

If there are no cigars in heaven, I shall not go.

Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass.