The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.