There are very few humorists who have written first-rate humor after they've become elderly.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

Rather than earn money, it was Thoreau's idea to reduce his wants so that he would not need to buy anything. As he went around preaching this ingenious idea, the shopkeepers of Concord hoped he would drop dead.

Each year it grows harder to make ends meet - the ends I refer to are hands and feet.

If I ever make a hole in one, A thrill that I've never known, I won't be believed and I'll have no fun, For I'm sure to be playing alone.