Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.

Nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest.

The fellow that owns his own home is always just coming out of a hardware store.

The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop, you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

I came only to report the news, to gather information. I didn't come to find out the truth.

A biomass will live with a self-preservation instinct

Just do your best. I find that if I set that goal for myself and no one else, I feel good.

Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them.

Compassion to an offender who has grossly violated the laws is, in effect, a cruelty to the peaceable subject who has observed them.

Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society.

The role of education is to interest the child profoundly in an external activity to which he will give all his potential

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

All enterprises that are entered into with indiscreet zeal may be pursued with great vigor at first, but are sure to collapse in the end.

Peregrine Wickwrackscar was flying. A pilgrim with legends that went back almost a thousand years-and not one of them could come near to this!