Stoicism is the wisdom of madness and cynicism the madness of wisdom.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Most civilized lives are measured out with coffee spoons.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

The civilized man has a moral obligation to be skeptical, to demand the credentials of all statements that claim to be facts.