As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.

I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live.

It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it.

When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.

It is not what a man knows, but what he thinks of in time.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time.