Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

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

It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture.

The cross of the Legion of Honor has been conferred upon me. However, few escape that distinction.

I like a thick book because it will steady a table, a leather volume because it will strop a razor, and a heavy book because it can be thrown at a cat.