It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

The stork is voiceless because there is really nothing to say.

Frogs will eat red-flannel worms fed to them by biologists; this proves a great deal about both parties concerned.

My philosophy of life can be summed up in four words: It can't be helped.

The Earthworm plows the whole world with his tunnels, drains and aerates the earth… If you ever buy any land, be sure it has plenty of Earthworms toiling and moiling all day so that you can sit down and relax.

I do not travel. I am not much of an extrovert, and I'm not much interested in extroverted objects. I do not care for the 'ideas' of novelists. Novels are wonderful, of course, but I prefer newspapers.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.