Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, “Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
There’s a dance in the old dame yet.
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: ‘Whose?’
An idea isn’t responsible for the people who believe in it.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.
A sequel is an admission that you’ve been reduced to imitating yourself.
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that’s read by persons who move their lips when they’re reading to themselves.
Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.
Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
It is a cheering thought to think that God is on the side of the best digestion.
Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.
Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.