All progress is based upon a universal, innate desire on the part of every living organism to live beyond its income.
If you are being run out of town, get in front of the crowd and make it look like a parade.
The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband being big enough to step back and see where the wife was wrong.
This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover.
Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour.
The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.
If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.
And he that doubteth is damned if he eat.
What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
It was a woman who drove me to drink - and, you know, I never even thanked her.