There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

It may be those who do most, dream most.