The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.

I said nothing of the sort.

I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.

It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values.

The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.