It is easier to stay out than get out.

Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

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

No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done.

The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf.