All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

If a rhinoceros were to enter this restaurant now, there is no denying he would have great power here. But I should be the first to rise and assure him that he had no authority whatever.

Progress is a comparative of which we have not settled the superlative.