No great man is ever born too soon or too late.

People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.

It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.

Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.

Nobody can misunderstand a boy like his own mother. Mothers at present can bring children into the world, but this performance is apt to mark the end of their capacities. They can't even attend to the elementary animal requirements of their offspring. It is quite surprising how many children survive in spite of their mothers.

I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.