But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh.

There will never be a "perfect" time to quit smoking. A time when you don't have any distractions or stress... If you had started today one year ago, this would not even be an issue for you today! Don't waste another year!

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.