Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs.

Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it.

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand.

Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little over the course of a century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.