Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.

Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.

In order to know whether a human being is young or old, offer it food of different kinds at short intervals. If young, it will eat anything at any hour of the day or night.

It is perfectly easy to be original by violating the laws of decency and the canons of good taste.

Certitude leads to violence. This is a proposition that has an easy application and a difficult one. The easy application is to ideoologues, dogmatists, and bullies--people who think that their rigtness justifies them in imposing on anyone who does not happen to suscribe to their particular ideology, dogma or notion of turf. If the conviction of rightness is powerful enough, resistance to it will be met, sooner or later by force. There are people like this in every sphere of life, and it is natural to feel that the world would be a better place without them!

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Most of us retain enough of the theological attitude to think that we are little gods.