It is rather to be chosen than great riches, unless I have omitted something from the quotation.

A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar stairs.

This is a test. It is only a test. Had it been an actual job, you would have received raises, promotions, and other signs of appreciation.

I can't bring myself to say, 'Well, I guess I'll be toddling along.' It isn't that I can't toddle. It's just that I can't guess I'll toddle.

A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated.

There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist.

What is the disease which manifests itself in an inability to leave a party--any party at all--until it is all over and the lightsare being put out?... I suppose that part of this mania for staying is due to a fear that, if I go, something good will happen and I'll miss it. Somebody might do card tricks, or shoot somebody else.