Some men succeed by what they know some by what they do and a few by what they are.
Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.
Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.
Love, we say, is life but love without hope and faith is agonizing death.
If you want a work well done select a busy man: the other kind has no time.
True life lies in laughter, love and work.
Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.
The past is one evil less and one memory more.
The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.
Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.