Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense

The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.

I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.