A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

I cannot help but notice that there is no problem between us that cannot be solved by your departure.

Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom.