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

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it.

Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.

Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.