“Women lie about their age; men lie about their income.”

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Business is always interfering with pleasure – but it makes other pleasures possible.

An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court.

A man must not deny his manifest abilities, for that is to evade his obligations.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

Few of us get anything without working for it.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

Many of our prayers were not answered, and for this we are now grateful.

An idea isn’t worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.

Back of ninety-nine out of one-hundred assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing, but the unwillingness to do it.

If you’re naturally kind, you attract a lot of people you don’t like.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn’t stop to enjoy it.

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help.

A budget tells us what we can’t afford, but it doesn’t keep us from buying it.

Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.