I called my cat William because no shorter name fits the dignity of his character. Poor old man, he has fits now, so I call him Fitz-William.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

[Science is] the literature of truth.

Contentment is a kind of moral laziness; if there wasn't anything but contentment in his world, man wouldn't be any more of a success than an angleworm is

Lying is like trying to hide in a fog: If you move about you're in danger of bumping your head against the truth, and as soon as the fog blows off, you are gone anyhow.

It's not so hard to get rich as it is to know when you have gotten rich.

There's a lot of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it.