“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

For dear me, why abandon a belief Merely because it ceases to be true.

The only certain freedom’s in departure.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.

If one by one we counted people out, for the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long to get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism; it’s egotism.

They cannot scare me with their empty spaces.

It’s a funny thing that when a man hasn’t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

The old dog barks backward without getting up I can remember when he was a pup.

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.

Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

I always write the end of everything first. I always write the last chapters of my books before I write the beginning. Then I go back to the beginning. I mean, it’s always nice to know where you’re going is my theory.

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

I am Envy, I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.

Love’s mysteries in souls do grow, But yet the body is his book.

I want to do something splendid, Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead I think I shall write books.