I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed is at a year old a most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled, and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricassee, or a ragout.

Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less.

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.

A man said to the Universe: "Sir, I exist!"<br> "However," replied the Universe,<br> "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.

What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.