“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.”

“The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.”

“Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.”

“Half of the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.”

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

“Don't put off till tomorrow what can be enjoyed today.”

“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.”