When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

When in doubt tell the truth. It will confound your enemies and astound your friends.

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.

I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier.

I deal with temptation by yielding to it.