To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals -- and critics of the Women's Movement.

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.

They that know no evil will suspect none.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

Every genuine boy is a rebel and an anarch. If he were allowed to develop according to his own instincts, his own inclinations, society would undergo such a radical transformation as to make the adult revolutionary cower and cringe.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

Liberty is being free from the things we don't like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Man on the dubious waves of error toss'd.

For take thy ballaunce if thou be so wise, And weigh the winds that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man's mind doth flow.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The accident of an accident.

There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

We're all stumbling towards the light with varying degrees of grace at any given moment.

To complain of lack of leadership is, in the field of political affairs, the characteristic attitude of all harbingers of dictatorship.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error, many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

We only part to meet again.

Oh, what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is; It blew and snew and then it thew, And now, by jing, it's friz!

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

Our power is in our ability to decide.