Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun.

Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high; give up the dream.

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.

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

Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.

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

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.