Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the life too closely examined may not be lived at all.

The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible.

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

One of my theories is that the hearts of men are about alike, no matter what their skin color.