Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It takes a good deal of physical courage to ride a horse. This, however, I have. I get it at about forty cents a flask, and take it as required.

Oh, child, my child, if only you realized who you truly are.

A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo...

If you've experienced half of the things I've passed through in life, you wouldn't underestimate the power of love.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Human beings are better and lazier than their rules and instructions.

There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom.

Any pilot can describe the mechanics of flying. What it can do for the spirit of man is beyond description.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

The perfect human being is uninteresting.

As soon as you have a problem, it's insoluble. These things should never have been allowed to happen.