New York, the nation's thyroid gland.

The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win.

The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

Man makes a great fuss about this planet which is only a ballbearing in the hub of the universe.

Blessed is he who has never been tempted; for he knows not the frailty of his rectitude.

It is unfair to blame man too fiercely for being pugnacious; he learned the habit from Nature.

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.