Thinking to get at once all the gold the Goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find,- nothing.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the money to pay for my psychoanalysis.

Nothing comes to mind without thinking!

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.

get a kick (out of something).

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Life is weaker than death, and death is weaker than love.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

He laughs best who laughs last.

Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

Either God is in the whole of nature, with no gaps, or He's not there at all.

Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death.

It takes less time to do things right that to explain why you did it wrong.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Round numbers are always false.