I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.

Goodnight, my kitten.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.

A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.