“I get in the dumps at times, and don’t open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I’ll soon be right.”

Education never ends, It is a series of lessons, with the greatest for the last.

It’s a wicked world, and when a clever man turns his brain to crime it is the worst of all.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

It is my business to know what other people do not know.

When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

It is not that I think or believe, but that I know.

Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion.

The chief proof of man’s real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness.

When a man does a queer thing, or two queer things, there may be a meaning to it, but when everything he does is queer, then you begin to wonder.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

Everything comes in circles. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It’s all been done before, and will be again.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Work is the best antidote to sorrow.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

Do you want to live and work in a garbage dump? I don’t. That’s partly because I grew up in the most pristine environment possible – Hawaii, where it is sacrilege to leave your garbage on the ground.

There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours.

Almost everyone has or will experience getting dumped in their lifetime. Unless, of course, you’re a nun. Jesus can’t dump nuns.

A fellow can’t live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear-and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed-stupid and mean.

If somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

I had always thought of Egypt as a rather secular country. And I think it is, but people are quite observant of the strictures of Ramadan.

I’ll never understand how you dumped water on me but didn’t notice me drowning.