A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Sometimes people do get hurt

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession.