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

The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.

Life's too damn funny for me to explain.

The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram.

We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.

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

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death; I am alive!