The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Look at you in war...There has never been a just one, never an honorable one, on the part of the instigator of the war.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five.