I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again

It is easier to stay out than get out.

Its easier to stay out than get out

...It is hard to overestimate how far a man can go in America if he looks good on a horse.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.

I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way, by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else....I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road.