Have common sense and stick to the point.

Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

We Americans... like change. It is at once our weakness and our strength.

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.