The world has many unintentionally cruel mechanisms that are not designed for people who walk on their hands.

Intellect annuls Fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

You know you are getting old when you think you should drive the speed limit.

No guest is so welcome in a friend's house that he will not become a nuisance after three days.

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

Truth never comes into the world but like a bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her birth.