I once sent a dozen of my friends a telegram saying 'flee at once - all is discovered.' They all left town immediately.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time.

Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work.

Education that consists in learning things and not the meaning of them is feeding upon the husks and not the corn

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.