All generalizations are false, including this one.

I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

The law of work seems unfair, but nothing can change it; the more enjoyment you get out of your work, the more money you will make .

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency.

Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time .