"Separate together in a bunch. [And don't] stand around so much in little bundles!"

"The celebrated Galen said that employment was nature's physician. It is indeed so important to happiness that indolence is justly considered the parent of misery."

"Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant, filled with odd waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like."

"Life is simply the pursuit of something worth dying for."

"I definitely believe in God. How can you look at anything and not be overwhelmed by the miraculousness of it?"

"Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all- the apathy of human beings."

"What can be more palpably absurd than the prospect held out of locomotives travelling twice as fast as stagecoaches?"

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."

"Publishers are just middlemen. That's all. If artists could remember that more often, they'd save themselves a lot of aggrevation."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

"Only the winners decide what were war crimes."