Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.