Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.

The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.

Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse.