Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.

After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.

If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people

If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.