“One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute".”