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

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.

The human mind appears suddenly and inexplicably out of some unknown and unimaginable void. It passes half its known life in the mental chaos of sleep. Even when awake it is a victim of its own ill-adjustment, of disease, of age, of external suggestion, of nature's compulsions; it doubts its own sensations and trusts only in instruments and averages.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.