Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.

If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

He marvelled at the fact that the cats had two holes cut in their fur at precisely the spot where their eyes were.