“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.”

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.”

“One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.”

“If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.”

“What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.”

“It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.”

“Humans, we just hop out of things, off things. We splatter ourselves in inappropriate places. Because we have nothing to live for. Because we want to destroy what we can. Because we want to be something we can’t. Because we don’t really believe we can die.”