“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

“If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.”

“Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

“Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.”

“Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.”

“Poverty is hereditary just like power, stupidity, and haemorrhoids.”

“Many races as well as cultural influences of men of all kinds have mixed into any man. To select, for approbation the peculiar elements that come from some supposedly Jewish heredity is to open the...”

“A man finds room in a few square inches of his face for the traits of all his ancestors for the expression of all his history and his wants.”