It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

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

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.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Censors are necessary, increasingly necessary, if America is to avoid having a vital literature.