“If being smart is what you say it is, I will remain a fool my entire life.”

“Always give your reader credit for being smart enough to figure out what you want to say.”

“He washed gold his entire life and remained poor his entire life.”

“If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.”

“You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.”

“I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.”