I think love is the most unbelievable, and critical, thing in civilization. Everything else is very mechanical and predictable, but love, you can't catch it.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

War is God's way of teaching Americans geography.

PASTIME, n. A device for promoting dejection. Gentle exercise for intellectual debility.

A bird in the hand is worth what it will bring.

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.

REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.