“About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.”

“It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.”

“The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.”

“Every man has his follies and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.”

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well”

“Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.”

“There is one kind of laugh that I always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from.”