Night is the mother of counsels.
Plodding wins the race.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other, to let her have it.
And now, Lord, what wait I for?
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
A blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat which isn't there.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful.
'Mid pleasures and palaces through we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like Home.
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
As I grow older, part of my emotional survival plan must be to actively seek inspiration instead of passively waiting for it to find me.
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
With the collapse of vaudeville new talent has no place to stink.
Along this tree From root to crown Ideas flow up And vetoes down.
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Judge each day not by it's harvest, but by the seeds you plant.
We often choose a friend as we do a mistress, for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. ... Today should always be our most wonderful day.