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

Make your vacation your vocation.

We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next.

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

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, & those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.