Make your vocation your vacation. That is the secret to success.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

[N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.

I ordinarily smoke fifteen cigars during my five hours' labours, and if my interest reaches the enthusiastic point, I smoke more. I smoke with all my might, and allow no intervals.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

Most of the things I worried about in life never happened.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.