All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime.

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.

The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce.

There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous.

So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant.

When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it.