“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.”

“Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.”

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

“Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.”

“Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.”

“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.”

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”