Prediction is difficult- particularly when it involves the future.

Humor is man's greatest blessing.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

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

If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.