A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

I pity the fellow who has to create a dialect or paraphrase the dictionary to get laughs. I can't spell, but I have never stooped to spell cat with a 'k' to get at your funny bone. I love a drink, but I never encouraged drunkenness by harping on its alleged funny side.

It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

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.