The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

What is Love? Listen! It is the rainbow that stands out, in all its glorious many-colored hues, illuminating and making glad again the dark clouds of life. It is the morning and the evening star, that in glad refulgence, there on the awed horizon, call Nature's hearts to an uplifted rejoicing in God's marvelous firmament!

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Good Lord, I don't know what 'rights' a man has! And I don't know the solution of boredom. If I did, I'd be the one philosopher that had the cure for living. But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.

There was much conversation, most of which sounded like the rest of it.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."