He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.