Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.
There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don’t smoke to excess. Second, don’t drink to excess. Third, don’t marry to excess.
The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don’t want, drink what you don’t like, and do what you’d druther not.
Marriage – yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes.
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Familiarity breeds contempt – and children.
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Always obey your parents when they are present.
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning.
It’s a classic … something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.
It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you.