There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.

Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.

What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child?

By association with nature's enormities, a man's heart may truly grow big also.