More than once I have been humiliated by my resemblance to God the father; He is always longing for the love of His children and trying to get it on the cheapest and laziest terms He can invent.

There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.

Always obey your parents - when they are present.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

All human rules are more or less idiotic.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.