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.

O wise humanity, terribly wise humanity! How inscrutable is the civilization where men toil and work and worry their hair gray to get a living and forget to play!

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

I am willing to allow that smoking is a moral weakness, but on the other hand, we must beware of the man without weaknesses. He is not to be trusted. He is apt to be always sober and he cannot make a single mistake. His habits are likely to be regular, his existence more mechanical and his head always maintains its supremacy over his heart. Much as I like reasonable persons, I hate completely rational beings.

There is no proper time and place for reading. When the mood for reading comes, one can read anywhere

There is so much to love and to admire in this life that it is an act of ingratitude not to be happy and content in this existence.

Men resort to talking only when they haven't the power to enforce their convictions upon others.