Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done.

Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt .

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.