The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it.

We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves.

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.