Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.

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.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.