The more I know people, the more I love my dog.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

I have only one moral precept; never smoke more than five cigars at a time.

France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.

I do not see how astronomers can help feeling exquisitely insignificant, for every new page of the Book of the Heavens they open reveals to them more and more that the world we are so proud of is to the universe of careening globes as is one mosquito to the winged and hoofed flocks and herds that darken the air and populate the plains and forests of all the earth. If you killed the mosquito would it be missed? Verily, What is Man, that he should be considered of God?

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter.

Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum.