There must be some good in the cocktail party to account for its immense vogue among otherwise sane people.

A loafer never works except when there is a fire; then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

Most people eat as if they were fattening themselves for market.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.