This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

The compensations of calamity are made apparent to the understanding also, after long intervals of time.

You will always be fools! We shall never be gentlemen.

Feast of Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, 988 Eternal Lord, how faint and small Our greatest, strongest thoughts must seem To Thee, who overseest all, And leads us through Life's shallow stream. How tangled are our straightest ways; How dimly flares our brightest star; How earthbound is our highest praise To Thee, who sees us as we are. Our feet are slow where Thine are fast; Thy kiss of grace meets lips of stone; And we admit Thy love at last To hearts that have none of their own.

Laugh not once at one's misfortune for one will laugh twice as much at you later.

I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb people.

Hide your body in the Big Dipper.

A tree never hits an automobile except in self-defense.

Confidence doesn't come out of nowhere. It's a result of something... hours and days and weeks and years of constant work and dedication.

I do beseech you-- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance.

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow, Filling the sky and earth below, Over the housetops, over the street, Over the heads of the people you meet. Dancing, Flirting, Skimming along.

The highest virtue found in the tropics is chastity, and in the colder regions, temperance.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas, but I know that is not so.

Embarrassment of riches.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. -Madame Dorothée Deluzy.

Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Things do not have meaning. We assign meaning to everything.

The celestial order and the beauty of the universe compel me to admit that there is some excellent and eternal Being, who deserves the respect and homage of men.

Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.