 A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. |
| The lack of money is the root of all evil. |
| Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. |
| By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. |
| My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. |
| Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. |
| Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. |
| It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. |
| The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. |
| Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. |
| The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. |
| Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. |
| I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened. |
| Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain. |
| To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble. |
| I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping. |
| You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. |
| The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. |
| The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. |
| Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms. |
