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

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

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

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man.

The most bewildering thing about man is his idea of work and the amount of work he imposes upon himself, or civilization has imposed upon him. All nature loafs, while man alone works for a living.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

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