"Wit is brushwood; judgment timber; the one gives the greatest flame, and the other yields the most durable heat; and both meeting make the best fire."

"The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better."

"The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year --- everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth."

"I don't want people who want to dance. I want people who have to dance."

"Daughters go into analysis hating their fathers and come out hating their mothers. They never come out hating themselves."

"2. He who is greedy is disgraced; he who discloses his hardship will always be humiliated; he who has no control over his tongue will often have to face discomfort."

"Shall I crack any of those old jokes, master,At which the audience never fail to laugh?"

"I've been on a calender, but never on time."

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."

"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."

"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul."

"Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."