How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Braveness is resistance to concern, mastery of panic - not absense of anxiety.

When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat.

What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.

Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.