The very "marks" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy.

To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Comedy keeps the heart sweet.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.