Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.

Nobody shoots at Santa Claus.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.