Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities.

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

It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals.

He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.