Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.

Not every woman in old slippers can manage to look like Cinderella

I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.

I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column.

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.