“It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious. ”

“Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.”

“If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.”

“There is no failure except in no longer trying. There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose.”

“All the world loves a good loser.”

“After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”

“Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.”

“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”

“When we realize that we are not the mind, we do not exist as a labled person. We also experience all circus around us does not exist either.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”