Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.