All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

More men have been elected between sundown and sunup than ever were elected between sunup and sundown.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

We are all here for a spell; get all the good laughs you can.

Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country.

Give me the clear blue sky over my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner—and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.

Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone — but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.

Man lives by habits indeed, but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.