He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

If I were going to construct a God I would furnish him with some ways and qualities and characteristics which the Present One lacks... He would spend some of His eternities in trying to forgive Himself for making man unhappy when He could have made him happy with the same effort and He would spend the rest of them in studying astronomy.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life.

Had double chins all the way down to his stomach.