There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.

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.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue

I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.

It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.