Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.

But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.