It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

I hate with a bitter hatred the names of lentils haricots - those pretentious cheats of the appetite, those tabulated humbugs, those certified aridites calling themselves human food!

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

Don’t try to fly if you are worry about landing on the earth.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

God is another word for Love.

He who when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling.

To command their professors of astronomy to refute their own observations is to command them not to see what they do see and not to understand what they do understand.

Ah! American cigarettes are like the American soul - sweet and light.

The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.

It is a part of the nature of man to resist compulsion.

Were it not for the transformative love of Jesus Christ, I would have been raised by a single mom without my father in the household, this is our fight, and that is why I'm running for president.

This is New York, and there's no law against being annoying.