Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened.

Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

Cats are the wildest of the tame and the tamest of the wild

We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed.