What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.

Even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes.