We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

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.

Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.

All Modern Men are descended from a Wormlike creature but it shows more on some people.

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

The wren-box problem is becoming more acute each year, for wrens now demand better housing conditions and labor-saving devices.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.