If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

Animals, whom we have made our slaves, we do not like to consider our equal.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

Sunlight is painting.

People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

A lie never lives to be old.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.