I do not like work even when someone else is doing it.

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

A tax is a fine for doing well, a fine is a tax for doing wrong.