“I believe that every human has a finite number of heart-beats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.”

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“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.”

“The more things change, the more they are the same.”

“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.”

“Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.”

“Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.”

“I am at two with nature.”

“Silence is the mother of truth.”

“America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.”