Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

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!

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

Life is too short to make an over-serious business out of it.

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