Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

A optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race.

we parted each feeling superior to the other and is not that feeling after all one of the great desiderata of social intercourse.

The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

A great many people who spend their time mourning over the brevity of life could make it seem longer if they did a little more work.

I never think at all when i write nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.