It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.

Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.