In Wilson's scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Touch is the most fundamental sense. A baby experiences it, all over, before he is born and long before he learns to use sight, hearing, or taste, and no human ever ceases to need it. Keep your children short on pocket money but long on hugs

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.

Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.

In a society in which it is a moral offense to be different from your neighbor your only escape is to never let them find out.

Spacemen die if they stay in one place.