To be brave in misfortune is to be worthy of manhood; to be wise in misfortune is to conquer fate.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh.

What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh!

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.

For my part, the good novel of character is the novel I can always pick up; but the good novel of incident is the novel I can never lay down.

The cost of ignorance is high and it can erode life, vision and wealth to the barren grounds of poverty and perplexity.

Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.

Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

We broke something, I think it was traction.

Among the cancers devouring the American body politic, one of the most virulent involves liberals who play the race card as carelessly as children playing 52 Pickup.

Our heavenly Father has a thousand ways to provide for us, of which we know nothing.

Actually the copies of characters is something I don't particularly like to talk about in articles but just for your information, most characters there's only one.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.