Gratitude is a euphemism for resentment.

Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price.

He's as weird as snake's suspenders but sweet as a stolen kiss, too.

Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation.

Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.

Each man is his own prisoner, in solitary confinement for life.

Stupidity cannot be cured. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death. There is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity.