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

Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.

A waste land lit by holy candles.

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

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

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.