If I cannot smoke in heaven, then I shall not go.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.

There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope.

To stand still is to fall behind.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.