The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?

Sunlight is painting.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

Reverence does not die with mortals, nor does it perish whether they live or die.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Any non-commissioned officer is more of an enemy to a recruit, any schoolmaster to a pupil, then they are if they were free.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

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.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.

Genius is sorrow's child.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.