Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.