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

I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.

There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.

The real yellow peril: Gold.

Total abstinence is so excellent a thing that it cannot be carried to too great an extent. In my passion for it I even carry it so far as to totally abstain from total abstinence itself.

It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term.