"I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all."

"Progress might have been all right once, but it went on too long."

"People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."

"The turtle lives 'twixt plated decksWhich practically conceal its sex.I think it clever of the turtleIn such a fix to be so fertile."

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."

"Children aren't happy without something to ignore, And that's what parents were created for."

"I love humanity, but I hate people."

"Jargon allows us to camouflage intellectual poverty with verbal extravagance."

"One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind."

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some."

"The eye by which I see God is the same as the eye by which God sees me. My eye and God's eye are one and the same-one in seeing, one in knowing, and one in loving."

"How far your eyes may pierce, i cannot tell; striving to better, oft we mar what's well."