Humor springs from rage, hay fever, overdue rent and miscellaneous hell.

Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

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.

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

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

Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.