what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.

We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.