I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness.

We are all vainer of our luck than of our merits.

There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up.

Everyone has something they don't want anyone to see; that is one of the functions of a home, to provide a spot to keep such things.

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.

I cannot agree that mountain climbing is merely one manifestation of man's spiritual aspirations. I think instead it is a hysterical paroxysm of his infantile vanity.