I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Let your joy be unconfined!

Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it.