A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred, He quoth, "A large cold bottle, and a small hot bird!"

There is purpose in pain, Otherwise it were devilish.

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

To-morrow is, ah, whose?

Vacation is what you take when you can't take what you've been taking any longer.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.

As good as a play.

People would worry less about what others think of them if they only realised how seldom they do.

Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.

The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear.

Our wrangling lawyers . . . are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell.

This strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry, its divided aims.

The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter "O."

The individual's most vital need is to prove his worth, and this usually means an insatiable hunger for action. For it is only the few who can acquire a sense of worth by developing and employing their capacities and talents. The majority prove their worth by keeping busy.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.