Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.