You can't stamp on a man's corns when he's got his feet cut off.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.

I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.

If we all had all we wanted to eat, we'd crap too much. We'd have inflation in the toilet paper industry.

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

A weed is a plant out of place.

When life attains a crisis, man’s focus narrows. […] The world becomes a stage of immediate concern, swept free of illusion.