Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value.

Life is short, break the rules.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

Good exercise for the heart: reach out and help your neighbor

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends