It is higher and nobler to be kind.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

I knew a man who grabbed a cat by the tail and learned forty percent more about cats than the man who didn't.

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.