I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

As a boy, I once saw a cart of melons that sorely tempted me. I sneaked up to the cart and stole a melon. I went into the alley to devour it, but no sooner had I set my teeth into it, than I paused, a strange feeling coming over me. I came to a quick conclusion. Firmly, I walked up to that cart, replaced the melon - and took a ripe one.

In love, you pay as you leave.

We were surprised how closely the cuckoo imitated the clock-and yet, of course, it could never have heard a clock.

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.