Life is…
the interval between the time
your teeth are almost through
and you are almost through with your teeth.

Women are all alike in this: they are all different, and most of them are different every hour.

Isn’t it strange that men should ever have made laws declaring it wicked to work?

We work not to acquire, but to become.

Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do!

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

Too many people nowadays know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

—Elbert Hubbard, Roycroft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams

Nothing is of any value to you except what you work for. Things given you and thrust upon you are forever alien to you…

“Life Lies in the Quest”

Usually no man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.

“To the Woods”

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.