Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything.

It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.

Every year you wait, long ago gets farther away.

I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity.