The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness--your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture....He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.

The heart is the real fountain of youth.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

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.

Tough times teach trust.

I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored.