If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

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

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

it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.