"You're a parasite for sore eyes."

"The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts; they are forever influencing the opinions and destinies of men."

"Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing."

"If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one."

"There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about."

"It is better to think too much, than to think too little"

"In human relations a little language goes farther than a little of almost anything else. Whereas one language now often makes a wall, two can make a gate."

"And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams Call to the soul when man doth sleep, So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes, And into glory peep."

"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."

"Viewing the child solely as an immature person is a way of escaping comforting him"

"I'd give you my seat, but I'm sitting in it."

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."