Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.

Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant.

I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

A great, great deal has been said about the weather, but very little has ever been done.