Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.