Nothing happens unless first a dream.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.