The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor.

The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.

The first half of my life I went to school, the second half of my life I got an education.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's.

It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in the same hour I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle for the first time. The spectacles stayed on.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.