Look to the end of a long life.

It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.

In the faces of men and women I see God.

Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished.

There are two theories about arguing with women. Neither one works.

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.

There came to port last Sunday night The queerest little craft, Without an inch of rigging on; I looked and looked--and laughed. It seemed so curious that she Should cross the unknown water, And moor herself within my room-- My daughter! O my daughter!

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't; and a sense of humour to console him for what he is.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

The art of losing isn't hard to masters; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.

Sometimes, when I drive across the desert in the middle of the night, with no other cars around, I start imagining: What if there were no civilization out there? No cities, no factories, no people? And then I think: No people or factories? Then who made this car? And this highway? And I get so confused I have to stick my head out the window into the driving rain---unless there's lightning, because I could get struck on the head by a bolt.

Sense is our helmet, wit is but the plume; The plume exposes, 'tis our helmet saves. Sense is the diamond, weighty, solid, sound; When cut by wit, it casts a brighter beam; Yet, wit apart, it is a diamond still.

The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

There is only on thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Lie like a rug.

There is nothing so aggravating as a fresh boy who is too old to ignore and too young to kick.