Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Man is unconquerable because he can make even his helplessness so entertaining. His motto seems to be "Even though He slay me, yet will I make fun of Him!

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.