Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55.

The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.