I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.

The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The mind that becomes soiled in youth can never again be washed clean. I know this by my own experience, & to this day I cherish an unappeased bitterness against the unfaithful guardians of my young life, who not only permitted but compelled me to read an unexpurgated Bible through before I was 15 years old. None can do that and ever draw a clean sweet breath again on this side of the grave.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself.