The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

The photographer is like the cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.