Household tasks are easier and quicker when they are done by somebody else.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

What happens when the future has come and gone?

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.

He talked with more claret than clarity.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering you own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them - every day begin the task anew.