Children are given us to discourage our better emotions.

Never be a pioneer. It's the early Christian that gets the fattest lion.

A woman who takes her husband about with her everywhere is like a cat that goes on playing with a mouse long after she's killed it.

I believe I once considerably scandalized her by declaring that clear soup was a more important factor in life than a clear conscience.

Addresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts.

Oysters are more beautiful than any religion... There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.