Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

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.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Geological time is not money.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

I am only human, although I regret it.

In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.