If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, make it dance.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Do not do unto others as you would that they would do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Few people think more than two or three times a year. I've made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

First love is a little foolish and a lot of curiosity.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop. ~ Peter's Quotations

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.