When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape

Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will.

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.