Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.

I was an old man when I was 12; and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.