First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

There was no answer, no solution, no sop, no deliverance. What, then, did I do? I read faster.

The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.

Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.

Where was it ever promised us that life on this earth can ever be easy, free from conflict and uncertainty, devoid of anguish and wonder and pain? Those who seek the folly of unrelieved 'happiness'-who fear moods, who shun solitude, who do not know the diginity of occasional depression-can find bliss easily enough: in tranquilizing pills, or in senility. The purpose of life is not to be happy.

We see things as we are, not as they are.

Satire is focused bitterness.