We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes.

How far we travel in life matters far less than those we meet along the way.

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value.