"Pushing forty? She's hanging on for dear life."

"The true skeptic will never believe you no matter how much proof you offer him. The true believer does not need it."

"We are the total of our longings."

"No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris ... [because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping."

"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."

"When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account."

"Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt."

"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."

"It takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad."

"Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences."

"Puritanism...helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others."

"Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor."