Marriage, in contrast to the flu, starts with a fever and ends with the chills.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

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.

I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.

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