The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

To be busy is man's only happiness.

You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type.

There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.

I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.