He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for.

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.

My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

A friend is someone who stays in when the rest of the world has gone out.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.