About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

Chess is one long regret.

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

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.

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.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.