“The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.”
“The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.”
“Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever.”
“Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.”
“The cleverest character in comedy is the clown, for he who would make people take him for a fool, must not be one.”
“All agreed that Quickset was the cleverest cat in the world. And, since Quickset had the same opinion, it was surely true.”