a certain / alloy of expediency improves the / gold of morality and makes / it wear all tbe longer.

a great many people / who spend their time mourning / over the brevity of life / could make it seem longer / if they did a little more work.

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

A SEQUEL IS AN ADMISSION THAT YOU’VE BEEN REDUCED TO IMITATING YOURSELF.

an old stomach / reforms more whiskey drinkers / than a new resolve.

an optimist is a guy

beauty gets the best of it / in this world.

Bores bore each other, too, but it never seems to teach them anything.

did you ever / notice that when / a politician / does get an idea / he usually / gets it all wrong.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man’s hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.