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

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface

One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack.

You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.

Dance like nobody's looking.

Congressman is the trivialist distinction for a full grown man.